| 4.0 excellent |
| 3 Doors Down The Better Life |
| 36 Crazyfists A Snow Capped Romance |
| A Perfect Circle Thirteenth Step |
| A Wilhelm Scream Mute Print |
| A Wilhelm Scream A Wilhelm Scream |
| It doesn't have anything on it that really comes close to the best of Career Suicide (maaaaaybe Bulletproof Tiger or Skid Rock), but every song hints towards another outstanding full length. Production also is not up to snuff with Career Suicide, and needs the extra shed that they threw in (again) to be amped up a bit. I'm kind of nitpicking tho, if I compared every cd of this style to Career Suicide then...well I'd be ignorant and stupid. This EP is a great teaser too hold fans (new and old) over until the new album. |
| Alexisonfire Crisis |
| This album was a sleeper for me, I didn't dig on it much during the first couple passive listens. However, since the album has sunk in and I've really dissected it, it has tremendous replay value. Everyone has stepped up their game on this cd. The vocal interplay is perfect, the drumming is spot on, and the band is as tight as ever. From the heavier songs (To A Friend, Crisis) to the poppier ones (Boiled Frogs, This Could be Anywhere in the world), this album shines through and through. AoF really hit the mark on this one. |
| Alkaline Trio Good Mourning |
| Atmosphere God Loves Ugly |
| Atmosphere Lucy Ford: The Atmosphere EPs |
| Atmosphere When Life Gives You Lemons... |
| Between the Buried and Me Colors |
| Boysetsfire The Misery Index: Notes From The Plague |
| Coheed and Cambria In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 |
| Cold 13 Ways to Bleed On Stage |
| Darkest Hour Deliver Us |
| Deftones Around the Fur |
| Deltron 3030 Deltron 3030 |
| Direct Hit! Brainless God |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail |
| Flogging Molly Drunken Lullabies |
| Fuel Sunburn |
| Goldfinger Goldfinger |
| In Flames Come Clarity |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Make Yourself |
| Injected Burn It Black |
| Into Eternity Buried in Oblivion |
| John 5 The Devil Knows My Name |
| Marvelous 3 Hey! Album |
| Metallica S&M |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Minus the Bear Planet of Ice |
| Mudvayne L.D. 50 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge |
| Northstar Pollyanna |
| Oleander Unwind |
| Oleander really came into their own as songwriters on this album. Vocalist Thomas Flowers shows incredible diversity, as well as intelligent lyricism and shines at centerstage for this album. The band holds their own behind him with great melody and backbone, giving the band the extra "umph" needed to push them past rock mediocrity, and in turn, produce a truly solid album. From hard rockers to soulful ballads to simple acoustics...this cd delivers on all levels and should be checked out by anyone. |
| Reveille Bleed the Sky |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture |
| Rise Against Revolutions per Minute |
| Rise Against The Sufferer and the Witness |
| Sara Bareilles Little Voice |
| Sara Bareilles The Blessed Unrest |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy |
| Silent Drive Love is Worth It |
| Stabbing Westward Darkest Days |
| Strung Out Twisted By Design |
| Strung Out Live in a Dive |
| Strung Out Agents of the Underground |
| The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn |
| The End (CAN) Elementary |
| The Gaslight Anthem Sink or Swim |
| The Gaslight Anthem American Slang |
| The Loved Ones (USA-PA) Build & Burn |
| The Offspring Ixnay on the Hombre |
| The Prodigy The Fat Of The Land |
| The Receiving End of Sirens Between the Heart and the Synapse |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream |
| Thrice The Artist in the Ambulance |
| Thrice If We Could Only See Us Now |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV |
| 3.5 great |
| 10 Years The Autumn Effect |
| 36 Crazyfists The Tide and Its Takers |
| A Perfect Circle Mer de Noms |
| A Static Lullaby A Static Lullaby |
| A Static Lullaby Rattlesnake! |
| After the tragedy that was Faso Latido, ASL took a step backwards and went to what they do best on their self-titled. After the much better (if not top-heavy) self-titled, they took it a couple steps further. For "Rattlesnake!" ASL stripped down to a four piece, Dan handled all the guitar parts, Joe got sober, and they took a page from Every Time I Die. The result is a much more focused, hard rocking, and fun ASL. If you liked their self-titled, then you'll at the very least enjoy this just as much. Oh yeah, and it turns out that B. Spears can rock, and rock well. |
| Acceptance Phantoms |
| AFI The Art of Drowning |
| Alexisonfire Watch Out! |
| Alkaline Trio Crimson |
| Alkaline Trio From Here to Infirmary |
| All My Heroes Magnolia St. |
| All That Remains The Fall of Ideals |
| Architects Hollow Crown |
| As I Lay Dying The Powerless Rise |
| Atmosphere Seven's Travels |
| Atmosphere Strictly Leakage |
| Avenged Sevenfold City Of Evil |
| Avenged Sevenfold Sounding The Seventh Trumpet |
| Bayside Sirens & Condolences |
| Bayside Shudder |
| Belvedere Fast Forward Eats the Tape |
| Between the Buried and Me Alaska |
| Black Stone Cherry Black Stone Cherry |
| Black Stone Cherry Folklore and Superstition |
| Blindside Silence |
| Boysetsfire After The Eulogy |
| Break The Silence Near Life Experience |
| Bullet For My Valentine Bullet For My Valentine EP |
| Bush Sixteen Stone |
| Chevelle This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In) |
| Chevelle Wonder What's Next |
| Chuck Ragan Feast Or Famine |
| Clutch From Beale Street To Oblivion |
| Cold Year Of The Spider |
| Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin |
| Darkest Hour The Eternal Return |
| Dave Hause Resolutions |
| Deadly Avenger Blossoms And Blood |
| Deftones Deftones |
| Dropkick Murphys The Meanest of Times |
| Dustin Kensrue Please Come Home |
| Everclear So Much For The Afterglow |
| Every Time I Die Gutter Phenomenon |
| Far-Less A Toast to Bad Taste |
| Finch Say Hello to Sunshine |
| Flogging Molly Swagger |
| Gatsby's American Dream Gatsby's American Dream |
| Green Day Dookie |
| Hidden In Plain View Hidden In Plain View EP |
| Hoobastank Hoobastank |
| I Am Ghost Lovers' Requiem |
| Incubus (USA-CA) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. |
| It Dies Today The Caitiff Choir |
| John 5 Songs For Sanity |
| Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band Trouble Is... |
| Killswitch Engage The End of Heartache |
| Lagwagon Resolve |
| Lamb of God Sacrament |
| Lostprophets Start Something |
| Lostprophets The Fake Sound Of Progress |
| Machine Head Burn My Eyes |
| Matchbox Twenty More Than You Think You Are |
| Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart |
| Misery Signals Controller |
| Muse Absolution |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love |
| Nickelback The State |
| Nightwish Once |
| Nonpoint Statement |
| Northstar Is This Thing Loaded? |
| Pantera Vulgar Display of Power |
| Papa Roach Infest |
| Parkway Drive Killing With A Smile |
| Poison the Well The Opposite of December |
| Protest the Hero Fortress |
| Rage Against the Machine The Battle of Los Angeles |
| Saosin Saosin |
| There just feels like there is something missing from this album. I think the big thing is that Cove's vocals, while his pitch and voice are great...he just doesn't vary/do enough with his melodies and meters. Another thing is that it feels like A. Rod's drumming is a lot more harnessed on here. I miss the more creative and less predictable patterns of the Translating the Name EP. Finally, there is hardly any screaming on this album. It's not missed a whole lot, but there are moments that would really be heightened and accented if punctuated with a scream. Not that it's a bad album...The guitar work is fun and the band is extremely tight. Cove's vocals are very good and the cd as a whole is extremely catchy. |
| Sarah Fimm White Birds |
| Sevendust Animosity |
| Sevendust Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow |
| Silent Civilian Rebirth of the Temple |
| Slipknot Slipknot |
| Stabbing Westward Stabbing Westward |
| Strike Anywhere Exit English |
| Strung Out An American Paradox |
| Strung Out Suburban Teenage Wasteland Blues |
| Strung Out Blackhawks Over Los Angeles |
| Swollen Members Black Magic |
| Swollen Members Heavy |
| The Bled Pass the Flask |
| The Lawrence Arms Apathy and Exhaustion |
| The Loved Ones (USA-PA) Distractions EP |
| The Offspring Conspiracy of One |
| The Offspring Americana |
| The Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness |
| The Spill Canvas No Really, I'm Fine |
| The Used The Used |
| Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie |
| This Is Hell Sundowning |
| This Is Hell Misfortunes |
| Thrice Vheissu |
| Thrice Identity Crisis |
| Thrice The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II |
| Tool Undertow |
| Underoath Define The Great Line |
| Vanessa Carlton Harmonium |
| 3.0 good |
| 10 Years Division |
| 3 Doors Down Away from the Sun |
| 36 Crazyfists Rest Inside the Flames |
| 36 Crazyfists Bitterness the Star |
| 3rd Strike Lost Angel |
| 40 Below Summer Invitation to the Dance |
| 6gig Tincan Experiment |
| A Static Lullaby ...And Don't Forget to Breathe |
| A Wilhelm Scream Benefits of Thinking Out Loud |
| Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals |
| Alkaline Trio Alkaline Trio |
| Alter Bridge Blackbird |
| Amber Pacific The Possibility and The Promise |
| As I Lay Dying An Ocean Between Us |
| Atmosphere You Can't Imagine How Much Fun... |
| Bear vs. Shark Terrorhawk |
| Brand New Deja Entendu |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia |
| Buckcherry Buckcherry |
| Bullet For My Valentine The Poison |
| Bullet For My Valentine Hand of Blood |
| Bullets And Octane In the Mouth of the Young |
| CKY Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild |
| Coheed and Cambria From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness |
| Cold Cold |
| Deftones Adrenaline |
| Destroy the Runner Saints |
| Drowning Pool Sinner |
| Endeverafter Kiss or Kill |
| Evanescence Fallen |
| Every Time I Die The Big Dirty |
| Finch What It Is to Burn |
| Finger Eleven The Greyest of Blue Skies |
| Flogging Molly Within a Mile of Home |
| Fortune and Glory Fortune and Glory |
| Goldfinger Stomping Ground |
| Haste the Day When Everything Falls |
| He Is Legend It Hates You |
| Hopesfall Magnetic North |
| Hot Cross Risk Revival |
| Incubus (USA-CA) Morning View |
| Innerpartysystem Innerpartysystem |
| James Morrison Songs For You, Truths For Me |
| It's a decent enough album, but beyond the standouts of Nothing Ever Hurt Like You, Broken Strings, and If You Don't Want To Love me...there isn't really anything that's truly great. Everything else is good for a couple spins, but not much more. |
| Killswitch Engage As Daylight Dies |
| Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill Y'all |
| Linkin Park Hybrid Theory |
| Mad at Gravity Resonance |
| Mad Caddies Duck and Cover |
| Maroon 5 Songs About Jane |
| Memento Beginnings |
| Metallica Load |
| Metallica Garage Inc. |
| Motion City Soundtrack I Am the Movie |
| My Chemical Romance The Black Parade |
| Nonpoint To the Pain |
| Papa Roach Getting Away With Murder |
| Papa Roach The Paramour Sessions |
| Protest the Hero Kezia |
| Reveille Laced |
| Rise Against The Unraveling |
| Rise Against Appeal to Reason |
| This is by no means a bad album, but Rise Against have been getting less aggressive since Siren Song of the Counter Culter and it isn't serving them well. They've always been at their best when rocking out full boar. Now don't get me wrong, there are some great tracks here. Collapse is classic Rise Against and Entertainment brings the aggressive tones back out and even brings something new to the table for them. Hell, Savior is one of the best songs they've ever done. And while there's nothing particularly bad on here, outside of 3 or 4 tracks(Really depending on if you like Hero of War) there isn't really anything that is going to grab you and keep you coming back. |
| Sara Bareilles Careful Confessions |
| Scary Kids Scaring Kids Scary Kids Scaring Kids |
| Sevendust Next |
| Sevendust Alpha |
| Shinedown The Sound of Madness |
| Spineshank Self Destructive Pattern |
| Staind Dysfunction |
| Stone Sour Come What(ever) May |
| Sum 41 Chuck |
| Taproot Gift |
| The Bled Silent Treatment |
| The Offspring Ignition |
| The Offspring Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace |
| The Used In Love and Death |
| Thirty Seconds to Mars 30 Seconds To Mars |
| Thursday A City By the Light Divided |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Unearth III: In the Eyes of Fire |
| Unwritten Law Elva |
| Zebrahead Phoenix |
| Zebrahead Broadcast To The World |
